Description When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world.
He is the author of Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination..
About the Author Björn Krondorfer is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University.
For, in the end, what is important is to embrace a spirit of Reconciliation that avoids self-interested action and, instead, advances other-directed care.
Arranged along an arc that spans from cases describing and interpreting actual processes with groups in conflict to cases in which the conceptual merits and constraints of Reconciliation are brought to the fore, the chapters ask hard questions, but also argue for a relational approach to reconciliatory practices.
Drawing on direct experiences with Reconciliation efforts, from facilitating psychosocial intergroup workshops to critically evaluating official policies, they also reflect on the personal motivations that guide them in this field of engagement.
The contributing scholars and scholar-practitioners--who hail from the United States, South Africa, Ireland, Israel, Zimbabwe, Germany, Palestine, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands--describe and analyze examples of reconciliatory practices in different national and political environments.
Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit of Reconciliation and for the need of Global conversations around this topic.
Less apparent, perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together.
Description When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world
